The Danes Who Died for America
It was sunny in southern Afghanistan on June 1, 2010, and the temperature quickly reached 104 degrees. Sophia Bruun was...
The President Who Cries Emergency
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
You Can Buy Canned Coffee With Food Stamps (But Only If It Has Milk)
The Save gas station on the west side of Gary, Indiana, wants customers to know that they can pay for...
Zombie Movies Should Always Be This Hopeful
It’s the oldest, creakiest trope in the zombie-movie storybook: You know who’s scarier than decaying, flesh-eating monsters? The people they’re...
Evan Smith Joins The Atlantic as Managing Director for Events
Evan Smith, who co-founded The Texas Tribune and its renowned festival and has advised dozens of local newsrooms on their...
Marco Rubio’s Empty Victory in Venezuela
In early 2019, Marco Rubio pressed his way through a dense crowd near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, his aides holding...
Will ICE Get Away With This?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts As often happens, Stephen Miller gave the...
She Shook Up the Literary World, Then Renounced It
Many editors languish in the margins of history, their contributions largely invisible despite how much they shape whom and how...
Democratic Bosses Are Launching a Remake of the 2028 Calendar
The caucus gyms of first-in-the-nation Iowa transformed Barack Obama from curiosity to contender in 2008. Black-church networks in South Carolina...
What Elizabeth Warren Gets Wrong About Democrats
The Democratic Party has two competing plans to “pick up the broken pieces from the 2024 election,” claimed Elizabeth Warren,...
Pity the Jewish Intellectuals of MAGA
At a Turning Point USA conference in December, the podcaster Ben Shapiro delivered a speech that was hailed as the...
The U.S. Military Can’t Do Everything at Once
Even with a nearly $1 trillion budget, the U.S. military can only do so much. Pentagon officials are privately warning...
What Trump’s War Against Wokeness Is Really About
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...
Will Google Ever Have to Pay for Its Sins?
If the story of journalism’s 21st-century decline were purely a tale of technological disruption—of print dinosaurs failing to adapt to...
Jeff Bezos Needs to Speak Up
When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan,...
